Advice for Blue Beetle fabric

Advice for Blue Beetle fabric

As I mentioned when I first joined this forum, I've always wanted to make Jaime Reye's Blue Beetle costume. Now that I finally graduated art school, I can focus my free time on making this costume a reality. :-)

One of the biggest obstacles I wanted to tackle was approaching the look of his suit. For reference, this is Blue Beetle:I don't want to use a spandex zentai suit because technically he's wearing organic armor. I went to the fabric store and came by marine vinyl, which looks really nice with what I experimented with.A little tuck for each layer to give the armor more textureFlat fingers so I can insert dome beads

Not bad. Has a great look, but I have a feeling marine vinyl won't be comfortable as a whole body suit. It would be an expensive mistake. TLDR: Anyone know a matte finish fabric that is comfortable to wear? If there's an obvious tutorial on fabrics I missed, I would appreciate if you could direct me that way.

It looks AWESOME, but I know from experience that it's NOT going to be comfortable to wear. My Guy Gardner vest is made from it and it's really warm so I can't imagine what it would be like to wear full body.

@aBlindSquirrel Thanks! I'll definitely post progress pictures. I can't wait to make dent in this thing.

@Wiccy Oh jeez, if you can't even bear it as a sleeveless vest, I doubt I'd stand a chance with it as a body suit! I like the matte finish fake leather. It's safe to assume that it's nothing like the cheap pleather in stores, yeah? I think I'll order a sample if they offer that option.

@Gravitz Thanks for the back-up site! I'll try contacting SpandexHouse on when they plan to restock in matte black. Compare prices that way.

It's not that I can't bear it, it's just really uncomfortable after a while because of the sweat and the hot and ewwwwww... but yeah, it also doesn't breath, so in a head-to-toes body suit you'd acutally be risking over-heating/fainting/heat stroke.

I'd the the most important thing is to make sure you get a material that breaths, so that at least if you are all hot and sweaty under it that heat has a place to go/way to be released and isn't just sitting on top of you making you even hotter.

You can always use the marine vinyl in strategic places as well, instead of as the material for the entire thing.